MIMO antenna design and optimization for mobile applications

Author

Mohajer, Mehrbod ; Rafi, Gholamreza Z. ; Safavi-Naeini, Safieddin

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada

fYear

2009

fDate

1-5 June 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

A novel design strategy has been proposed for multiple antenna elements in MIMO systems to maximize the system capacity. Firstly, one single antenna has been effectively designed by HFSS software. Since it is very difficult to optimize the MIMO antenna parameters using HFSS, the single antenna has been modeled by a magnetic current to be used in optimization procedure. The magnetic current distribution can be employed in reciprocity approach along with MoM analysis to calculate the field radiation pattern of antenna element in presence of practical ground plane. This approach provides a calculation method, which is very suitable for optimization purposes. The optimization has been performed on correlation coefficient between antenna elements to obtain the optimum physical parameters. Ultimately, the optimal design has been validated by HFSS simulation.

Keywords

MIMO communication; antenna radiation patterns; method of moments; mobile antennas; optimisation; HFSS software; MIMO antenna design; MIMO antenna parameters; MIMO systems; MoM analysis; field radiation pattern; magnetic current distribution; method of moment; mobile applications; multiple antenna elements; practical ground plane; Antenna radiation patterns; Application software; Current distribution; Design optimization; MIMO; Magnetic analysis; Mobile antennas; Optimization methods; Pattern analysis; Software design;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, 2009. APSURSI '09. IEEE

Conference_Location

Charleston, SC

ISSN

1522-3965

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3647-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APS.2009.5171822

Filename

5171822